Virginia Tech Announces Supercomputer Plans

CousinVinnie writes "Previously noted in this Slashdot story, the administration of Virginia Tech has announced they're puchasing 1100 G5's (another story) in hopes to build a top-10 supercomputer by October 1. Tech will be spending $5.2 million over five years on the project, which should help it pull in more research money." Maybe VT can use the new computers to beef up their web site.

Comments

Re:PC Upgrade Woes

[orionware]

I just installed Acrobat 6 on an athlon 800Mhz we have here and it installed in about 80 seconds.

You have either:

a) a serious hardware issue with the P4 machine

or

b) a tendency to lie in an effort to boost the mac image

Since you say you upgraded from a Cyrix M3/233 you might just be a simple moron since they haven't made that chip in God knows how many years and it was a shit architecture as well.

The whole story is dubious as why would you buy a p4 serial ata to help you at your freelance gig where you "copy a 17 meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder"?

Re:PowerMac G5s?

[deander2]

these ARE G5 Xserves...just cuz the public can't get them yet, doesn't mean vt can't.

btw, tech is a very geek-heavy/savvy campus. i wish i was still there. ;-p